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That's a long way north of where I am. It sounds like about half of it is forecast for Canada.
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Snowing now with ~40mph gusts expected later.
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Oh hell will you look at this. Her place is over the hill to my place for crying out loud, the same thing is happening here:
I looked out over my drive in time to watch an empty cardboard box take off and then fly away. I'm going to designate my drive as an international freight airport after seeing that. It was even a Fedex box to lend reality to that idea
It's been blowing doors open. I need to look into those latches, after this blustery day.
Here's video of blustery day:
Did I mention we have bears.
I looked out over my drive in time to watch an empty cardboard box take off and then fly away. I'm going to designate my drive as an international freight airport after seeing that. It was even a Fedex box to lend reality to that idea
It's been blowing doors open. I need to look into those latches, after this blustery day.
Here's video of blustery day:
Did I mention we have bears.
no disrespect meant, but I see those types of winds in an average thunderstorm here on the gulf coast
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How tall are the trees you see on the gulf coast?
Wind bothers trees proportional to their height.
This is a video about trees around here. There's dancing girl and some guy who reminds me of Homer Simpson in the video as well:
This video is about trees from down the road towards the South a bit. It has a silly girl in it who says she has four eyes. She's nice.
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many pines and oaks over 70ft tall. If it's not a direct hit from an F3 or higher we hardly take notice. That said a one foot snowfall is hardly noticed in your area. It would cripple us. Depends on where you live
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It's over now and it wasn't too bad. I had one tree come down. One of a second generation live oak cluster of trees. About three feet around and perhaps 170 feet tall. Kind of a trash tree, or to put it another way a giangitic weed.
They are a sort of red oak which grows like a shrub bush, only gigantic, and has evergreen leaves instead of the usual deciduous leaves one expects of oaks. At times I question if they even are oaks. They might be white pines wearing hoods.
They are firewood trees because every inch of the trunks are not straight. Not even one foot of usable plank could come from one unless one was a Viking building a new boat. They'd be the right shape and correct size for Viking boats. Growing from clumps they all lean outward from the center.
Generally where one sees them, expect poison oak to be in there as well. Poison Oak is about the same as Poison Ivy like what you have on the east coast.
About the time it settled down the US Weather service took over my cell phone to make very loud rude noises eight or nine times before I turned it off. They said Noah's flood was on it's way. I got the impression I was to grab myself by right eyeball and left ear and hold on tight.
That was a false warning, like a boy cried wolf eight or nine times, the entire lives of a cat, that sort of thing because just as soon as they started warning me that the world was ending every three or four minutes, it stopped raining altogether and the winds ceased. Loud noises other than those caused by my phone ceased.
I am generally curious. You said a live oak is a trash tree. Must be local verbiage. Along the gulf coast a Live Oak
is considered a treasure and a permit is required to remove one. I live 10 miles from this one.
This will stop a semi in its tracks
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Alabama fan Harvey Updyke, poisoner of Auburn trees, dead at 71
Updyke spent time in jail in connection of his infamous poisoning of iconic trees on Toomer's Corner.
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That's a second generation live oak alright. It looks kind of like there's another one just to the left of the camera view which has sent a cobble, (scaffold limb) in to visit it's neighboring tree. That's the lowest cobble, the one to the left with a fork and a great big knot hole. It has a fork which if it is not a visiting cobble from another tree, it has grown it's fork backwards which would surprize me.I am generally curious. You said a live oak is a trash tree. Must be local verbiage. Along the gulf coast a Live Oak
is considered a treasure and a permit is required to remove one. I live 10 miles from this one.
This will stop a semi in its tracks
They are not regarded as treasures here. That doesn't mean they're picked on especially, but they aren't the queen of the forest.
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Don't you have to watch out for alligators?A true live Oak Range below. It's not often I can say I live in a special area ,but this is one.
That alone makes it a special area.
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Will you look at this. Ornery boaters in Wisconsin steal a bears scuba mask while the bear was trying to get across the lake.
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No need to fear alligators , just feed them marshmallows.
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Oh' that's about the same as it is for bears. I carry a small tin of cat food with a pull ring for bears.
If I need to distract a bear I pull the ring and try to get it to bounce between the bears feet and then go on past the bear, the farther and faster it goes the better because the bear chases the can of food while I quietly make my way off to somewhere else.
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